Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1910 — PETTIT SENT TO PRISON. [ARTICLE]

PETTIT SENT TO PRISON.

Check Worker Gets One to E’ght Years In Lafayette Court. Robert Pettit, who recently victimized T. J. Mallatt of Fair Oaks out of Si 1.40 on a forged check and then hiked to Lafayette • where he came to greif in trying to pass forged checks in that city for various amounts, was tried in the Tippecanoe county court a few day* ago and given a sentence of one to eight years to ruminate over the “way of the transgressor.” Pettit was formerly an evangelist, but fast living, he said, was the cause of his downfall. He refused to divulge his home or his real identity.. ♦ ■ *